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A clinical trial for a new headache medication found that 80% of participants who took the drug reported relief. The researchers concluded that the drug is effective.
Which of the following is an assumption underlying the researchers' conclusion?
- The reported relief was not, for most participants, attributable simply to the placebo effect of being treated.
- The newly developed headache drug is considerably more expensive for patients to obtain than the existing medications.
- Headaches happen to be by far the most common medical complaint reported by people living in the region.
- All of the participants who enrolled in the clinical trial happened to suffer from exactly the same type of headache.
- The drug reliably relieves every conceivable kind of bodily pain a patient might feel, not headaches alone.
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